Re: [gedit-list] External Tools to replace "Current Line"

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 20:55 +0100 3/10/10, mlunzena uni-osnabrueck de wrote:
>What's the rationale to offer the "Current Line" as input for External
>Tools, but to omit "Replace Current Line" as output? Could this be
>easily changed?

If the current line is a command to a shell one probably wants to use it over and over. Replacing it could be a disaster.

Selection as input does what you want but I often have to make my tool rewrite it because I may want to do that over too.

What's really needed is a procedure that would allow some commands to gedit from the external tools like a callback or two to change the operation depending on just what text was in the selection or the line.

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